SHOWS
“If you've ever wanted to see the future of comedy—head to the BCC.” - Time Out New York
The Good Time is a fully improvised show based on one suggestion from the audience. The Good Time is a team made up of Chicago improv veterans who have performed at The Second City, iO Chicago, The Annoyance, Logan Square Improv.
Openers: The Bisque , Hooper
Brand new sketches, improv… special guests?! We’ve got it all!
Descend. Join the freaks of the BCC for a night of mania. All new wild-ass improvised sketches every week. Welcome to hell, it’s a party.
“The right mix of scrappy and chaotic.” - The New York Times
Tickets: FREE with a suggested donation to BCC Diversity Scholarship fund.
This fully-improvised space odyssey includes live accompaniment by Jay Reed and alien lifeforms played by Chicken Big and Que!
Come be unapologetically [insert non-white race here] and unapologetically goofy on stage with us on the 4th Friday of each month at 7pm at the BCC Pig Pen!
Free for BCC Students w/ suggested donation to Div. Scholarship!
Join Ava Whiteley (strong) & Gracie Hirsch (brown hair) for a night of comedy dedicated to those who are Brave, Curious, & Built Different.
Award-winning trickster, Red Bastard, teeters on the tip of your moral highs and lows as he asks each audience the seemingly simple question: What are the Rules of Love?
Whatever your obsession, “Obsessed with Us” will interview you (or another audience member) about it — then do a fully improvised long-form show based on that interview!
Legendary improv duo Mike Jest & John Randall do forty five minutes of the Chicago-style comedy!
This month, NLOG will split into two teams and battle against each other, with the help of some of the most powerful improvisers in the city.
We've heard your cries for MORE IMPROV. And we are thrilled to announce the Forever Jam, a jam open to current and past BCC improv students... because we're all students of commedia starting NOW and forever. Come get your reps done in an all-levels friendly space!
Free for BCC Students w/ suggested donation to Div. Scholarship!
These veteran improvisers and long time friends deliver fast-paced, wild style, Deep-Dish, Chicago Style Improv.
The best way to spend a chilly Saturday night in November is seeing Brooklyn Comedy Collective’s very own home-grown sketch team GOLFERS
Welcome to the BCC's longest-running haus improv show - where everything is totally made up on the spot, for one night only.
Opener: Class Act
Wanda and Alex have done it all, from saving the universe, to committing crimes against nature – but they’ve never hosted a talk show.
Nick and Noah have been called this generation's Simon and Garfunkel - if Simon and Garfunkel made up all of their songs on the spot and gave up their 10 Grammys.
Bucket TV is inviting several of their perfect and charming friends to join them in the big bucket and create something unique using improv
Welcome to BABES! An improv show featuring students & grads of the BCC training center. Catch some of the best rising teams from the BCC. It’s time for the community to fuck around, mess around, and be a god-damn lunatics. By that, we mean do improv.
Featuring: Granny Fully Loaded, Oof, Plan C
Sketch team Bundle & Save present a brand new hour of sketches inspired by their hometowns.
“YO WTF is The Apocalypse?” is a collection of sketches about what “the end of the world” might look like, and contemplating whether or not it's already started.
A brand new weekly stand up show brought to you by our beloved BCC stand up faculty!
Featuring: TBA
Cup Of Worms proudly presents, Clownucopia, an hour long Thanksgiving-inspired clown show where the giggles and the gobbles are aplenty.
No shows this week! Go ahead and eat food and buy a tv and blast off!!!! We’ll see you in December (the winter’s month).
Students from Broken Box's Mime Class Level 1 show off what they've learned over the past 5 weeks.
Welcome to our weekly house improv show where a rotating cast of 6 primo indie teams do some of the most GOATED improv you've ever seen!
THIS WEEK IT’S DOG TEAMS: GUPS, Morgan & Morgan & Morgan & Morgan & Morgan, Not Like Other Girls
Performers get 3 minute slots to try their material out with little pops from After School Special in between. Show off standup, sketch, a character, or even a little poem you've been working on. There is a ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY FOR BIGOTED MATERIAL.
Tickets: FREE with a suggested donation to BCC Diversity Scholarship fund.
Students from the Improv Level 4 Class, instructed by Andy Junk, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks. Show #1 of 3!
Students from BCC's Character Workshop class, instructed by Jamie Linn Watson, show off their hard work from the last 5 weeks.
The Good Time is a fully improvised show based on one suggestion from the audience. The Good Time is a team made up of Chicago improv veterans who have performed at The Second City, iO Chicago, The Annoyance, Logan Square Improv.
Openers: Former Child, Stress Dream
Do you like laughing? Do you like doing good? What if I told you both were possible AT THE SAME TIME???
“The right mix of scrappy and chaotic...a leading house of improvisation.” - The New York Times
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FUN AND DUMB IMPROV FESTIVAL
Thank you to everyone who attended Fad’25 and our nearly 800 performers!!
See you next year July 9-12, 2026!
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